skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a message: "Transactions in this instrument are limited to closing-only trades" @ Jan29'21 300 CALL GME.
There's a WORLD of a difference between a mutual fund or ETF that owns Tesla, and buying call options on the stock, that make money only if the stock moves in a definite time-frame. We have other examples too, for example Kelly Loeffler, whose husband is head honcho of the NYSE, sold a lot of stocks just before the Feb/March crash in 2020, based on insider information that she got from attending the Congress briefings that showed it was not just a flu.
That tactic backfired multiple times in history, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
> This time, sure, it was Reddit and the subreddit may be suspended. Next time it'll be a Discord or Telegram board or something. It's just... so easy

It's not so easy. There are concentrated tech players. There's decentralized systems but they aren't there yet in terms of usability for millions of people to just log on and use seamlessly like they do w/ Reddit. It may get there eventually, but its nowhere close to being available.

And then you have different layers of protocol that are all more or less centralized. AWS, gcp, Azure isn't going to host illegal or risky content. And even if you get around that, you'll have to contend w/ the ISPs that can just block arbitrarily if they so choose.

Yes, you can get around all those, but not on the scale to make a meaningful impact and the barriers will deter all but the most fervent supporters, and they likely wouldn't have enough money or influence to cause the havoc they're causing today.
IANAL but I believe that some clever lawyers have used this to the advantage of the victims by essentially creating a DOS attack on the company, flooding it with binding arbitration claims.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/arbitration-over...
When it succeeds, and the originators of the squeeze don't sell beforehand.
Same group of companies, the distinction is completely irrelevant.
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Step 0: Citadel pays Robinhood for order flow. Citadel gets to see RH's orders a few milliseconds before they're filled. Citadel may choose to front-run some of those trades.

Step 1: RH's customers and WallStreetBets start manipulating $GME. This is happening in the open.

-- https://twitter.com/toxic/status/1353890766800621569
Just another point here. The original (aka prior to Jan 15ths ish) reddit traders had a fair market value of $80-$150 on this stock.

Looking at the current options prices, if / when this is all over GME will probably land within that range.

Yes, there is a lot of crazy new money going in here at super high prices, but all of the regular WSB users going in on this stock weren't planning on bag-holding, etc. It was a value play.
> It should be just the other way around

It should not be just the other way around
The article implies something nefarious going on here, but there are plenty of entirely rational innocent explanations. i.e. the videos are attracting a large quantity of spam dislikes, and YouTube is bulk-removing them.
What you are describing would be Discord engaging in (potentially illegal) market manipulation.
Yeah, read it on a large tablet, or on a large computer display.
Ultrasound 3D scanners is a thing.
I hope you're right - I truly believe that post 2012 social media has been a cancer on society, in addition to the 24/7 newscycle. But I somehow am not as optimistic as you are. People far underestimate the power of twitter/fb/youtube.

The power in those sites is that they are not siloed and at scale, meaning you can reach a much broader audience. Parler would never be able to influence the mass market because it was so specialized - making it ineffective at evangelization. WSB would never be what it is without the platform of reddit. Going to a small specific site will not have the same power, even though I think it is better to host your own hardware and do that.
Read up on the story of the Piggly Wiggly short/corner.
I had the same feeling, but just the other day I found that a bunch of pretty critical stuff (the underpinnings of very popular NAS solutions like openmendiavault) is still rooted there. They also seem to have dialed down their "ADS ADS ADS!!!!!111!" strategy, probably as a result of that scandal and subsequent takeover.

I'm still pissed at Filezilla for jumping on that particular adware bandwagon though...
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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If they're able to coordinate a short squeeze, they can easily coordinate demand for thousands of arbitration requests.

And we know what happened to DoorDash when they tried to play that game: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-otc-doordash/this-hypocri...
Because it's the easiest way by far for someone with just a bit of extra cash to quickly start trading without paying much in fees.
Will check it out. By 'crashier' do you mean the browser crashes or the website fails to load? If it's the former, then I don't remember Falkon ever crashing.
They cannot ban open source code being out there. They can always put any restrictions and we can always override them. What will they do? Sue us? They are welcome. There is no way a non technical person to assess technical matters. Laws that do not represent society's will, are bound to be broken, and politicians cannot do anything about that.
Not quite. Citadel is a very well known quant hedge fund. The main way Robinhood makes money (and can let people trade without commission) is by selling their customers order flow (legally) to Citadel. Citadel (legally) uses this customer information to, in the milliseconds before the customer, front-run the trade, buy the shares and sell them to the Robinhood users at a marginal profit.
I used it before but I am not a huge fan of it, I do not remember the exact reason however so I might try it again. So far I have been using tab manager plus but it does not let you group tabs together (unless if you create new windows).
I miss the old firefox panorama.
> some irresponsible newspapers blaming the whole thing on GamerGate and Alt-Right [...]

What?
citadel is their market maker but as far as I know is not owned or operated by them.
No one is going to become violent over not being able to buy GameStop or Nokia stock.
Right, and Google Search never intentionally or accidentally makes changes to help Google Ads.
Now 309 USD, only 20 minutes, this comment didn't age well.
Chrome has that too, but last I checked, they do not persist if you close the browser. Is edge any different?
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I've found Source Sourcetrail (https://www.sourcetrail.com/) an invaluable tool in aiding program comprehension, especially in C++ projects.

There's another interesting program comprehension tool based on dynamic analysis (as opposed to Sourcetrail's static analysis), which I've yet to try: http://findtheflow.io/
Stalin empirically disproved that statement.
No, it is just the distance.

If you switch to a lens with higher magnification, that's an indirect reason. It may or may not make you move farther away. But the distortion/appearance is due to the distance.

Also, you may crop photos (ie digital zoom) or use a different sensor size or sensor distance.

At the end of the day, the necessary and sufficient condition for the change in appearance is the distance.the lens is neither sufficient nor necessary.
I am in Uk, and Trading 212 has not allowed any purchases since yesterday.

Freetrade is the only platform that was still allowing trades. I thibk i will stick by them, despite them taking saubscribtuon payments
This website also contains climate change denial and scare quotes around the word scientist.

We should be more skeptical of sites like this.
You keep saying that but they are literally sub companies of the same larger conglomerate. Their CEO and founder is the same person, he is also both of their primary shareholders.
According to the Supreme Court, forced arbitration is fine to have in a TOS. The past couple years there's been more awareness of it, it's one of the nastiest sneak moves in history to take people's rights away en masse. You don't find out until you get in a position where you've been harmed and you go to hold them accountable using the legal system: Surprise! You have to settle in this thing where the defendant pays all the participants. Here's your $200 check for your $200,000 claim, see you next time.
To be clear I bought puts on GME yesterday, so this will work well for me, but it is totally unfair by Robinhood. I will be cancelling my Robinhood account after this show of force.
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PGP, despite its flaws (flaws that are about ease of use, not really about security), seems to still be the only solution for proper end to end encrypted communication where nobody (corporations, govmts and even three letter organisations) will be able to decrypt your messages.

I guess that's one of the reasons why there are so many voices against PGP...
I often find that when I can come across documentation that was written for a practitioner, say, 50 years ago, it helps clarify why things work the way they do today - the new, "streamlined" way of doing something only ever makes sense to me after I understand what the old way actually was.
> Why do Robinhood, Reddit, Discord, etc feel like they have to respond to this?

Indeed. There's a lot of talk about Section 230 lately, and how "precious" it is to freedom of speech. That law protects them from culpability against hosting legally-dubious things like this market move -- and any malfeasant commenting about it -- but none of the big platforms are acting like it exists. They're just censoring anyway, because they are either embarrassed, or are getting their strings pulled. Either stand behind Section 230, or admit you're just censoring things for duplicitous reasons of politics, money, or the rabble.
It is a pump in the sense that none of the fundamentals of the company have changed between December and now, the main event has been people buying stock with the express purpose of enabling a short squeeze. Legally, there could be an argument for it being market manipulation.
Github allowing you to disable PRs would be a bit like Facebook allowing you to opt out of ad-tracking...
On the other hand I keep trying to use Vivaldi but the UI is just slow. At least in Linux it is.
xterm false 0.06s user 0.01s system 81% cpu 8Mb mem 0.090 total

mlterm -e false 0.08s user 0.02s system 84% cpu 13Mb mem 0.125 total

kitty -1 false 0.22s user 0.05s system 93% cpu 78Mb mem 0.290 total

(and yes, there's a kitty instance running already..)
I'm curious why Elm gets such flak for doing the same?
Censorship, Cancel Culture - - and now, throttling smaller retail traders again giving the big institutions and hedges more power.
Reddit and discord are afraid they'll be implicated in what is a classic pump and dump. Robinhood only exists because the SEC has chosen to look the other way concerning the pattern day trading rule which clearly is in jeopardy if big money starts complaining.
You want to ban people from github for asking low-quality questions? Who is going to determine when a user's questions are low-quality enough?
I had the same issues with PhDs you know. Immaturity is not a property of teens only.
This kind of stuff takes a nontrivial amount of time and effort to setup and _automate_.

Plus at the end of the day you still need to host the repo itself somewhere (not just the web UI), which means you will need a hosted place you can write to via Git's push mechanisms... It's not impossible but finding free managed hosting for this seems nontrivial too.
The choice of what to treat as bedrock is essential to the parent's comment remark that, "We just need to want it." The notion that a person or a team should be able to use whatever development methods and architectural style they feel like coming up with at the time and then throw it into intelligent tooling to figure it out—rather than, say, spending a little more time learning another paradigm that doesn't require general artificial intelligence to be a solved problem—is something that qualifies as wanting something but still not wanting it bad enough to do anything about it.

Consider a closely related topic: source control. Nowadays, not using any form of control sounds crazy, but there was a time when that wasn't the case. What was standing in the way? A subset of working developers who just wanted to code without having to think about the task of systematically capturing a record of a codebase's history. But having a reliable, exhaustive record of changes is more useful than not having it, and the default stance today is that you need to use source control. What did it take to get here? Programmers getting over themselves and putting in upfront work to attain a level of competence where basic source control operations are natural.

The tools that the author has created and the work they're doing is in "clearly better than what many people are doing now" territory, but it's completely unworkable so long as programmers are unwilling to get over themselves and keep opting instead to just do things the way they've always done them.
You are bringing in Rust's amazing type system but that assumes that you understand how the 3rd party system behaves. Otherwise your types will be very loose (i.e. String ? could be anything in there) not gaining anything compared to Javascript/Ruby/Python.

If I know how the external system will behave then yes Rust is better, obviously. However I was talking on the case of figuring out, as the article says. Sometimes you are not even there, you integrate with an external (legacy? undocumented? buggy?) system and you need to understand what's going on. In these cases a dynamic language is so much more productive than Rust and any Rust-like language.
Ah, but what about being able to sell?
This will be somewhat difficult to prove because the WSB discord (for the hour I was in it) was more or less a walking terms of service violation, near totally consisted of "ironic" racial slurs and "ironic" racist memes, n/f-word everywhere.
Take from the rich give to the poor.. Isnt that Robin Hood??? Lots of rich People with power in high positions are scared of being poor.
It seems obvious there would be plenty of "legitimate" dislikes coming, as probably a lot of people who followed this YouTube channel in the past 4 years were Trump supporters, and now the channel features Biden. Trump supporters still subscribed would dislike this content. I wonder if the same happened at the last transition.
> a market is allocating capital to a dying company just because meme, then the market isn't serving its purpose. I don't see how this is different than what is constantly being criticized such as flash crashes, contagion and large moves based

It’s not your job to decide what is an efficient place for capital. The market is serving its purpose exactly right now by allowing the free trade of shares in GME. If people want to spend their money on a GME share to be a part of something, that’s their prerogative.

You know what else the market allocates capital to? Gold funds, who do nothing but sit on giant vaults of gold. It’s about the stupidest allocation of capital possible but nobody is clutching their pearls about that.

Telling people what is inappropriate to do with their money is a great way to get them to do it more. The whole reason we have a free market is because historically the big people in charge can’t allocate capital more efficiently than free-for-alls.
As bad as it looks, it could be an automated attempt to protect the system from manipulation. As such, I find the author's conspiratorial tone somewhat unjustified. (For example, the comment about 1 am probably has little to do with doing it when people are unlikely to notice it and more to do when maintenance is done.)
It's not a short squeeze any more the shorts sold out at a huge loss. Now it's just hot air holding it up.
This is not limited to these stocks - I’ve been stopped from buying some REITS, closed end funds, ETFs, ect (even DNP).
>Can someone help me understand Robinhood's POV?

This is a small part of the picture but RH lost a lot of money due to WSB advertising and exploiting the 'infinite money glitch' so it likely didn't take much convincing to act against WSB.

Though ironically it took them months to close the glitch which was their fault and a day to stop the action on WSB's picks.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/robinhood-fi...
There is no buy button on the page. I cannot purchase the stock. "This stock is not supported on Robinhood".
So, what Haigh is saying, what historians as a field do, is useless. I agree.
The other option you didn't mention is forking. It's got a GPL license, you can fork if you want. Like a public fork you encourage others to submit PR's to also.

Yeah, that's a lot of work. That's exactly the point.
As it was said in previous days: they (the originators of the squeeze) can remain irrational longer, than the other side (hedge fund managers) can remain solvent.
I’m fuming, and about as angry as I’ve been in years because of this. Robinhood opened up a bunch of levered trading to amateurs, that was fine! Allowing folks to buy stocks that are making their business partners lose cash: we’re protecting the little guy.

If you work at Robinhood and you continue working at Robinhood I don’t know how you’ll continue to sleep at night.
Lol, what else to say but: Buy Bitcoin?
Alternate anectdata: I switched to Vivaldi a year or two ago and have had no problems with crashes.
Designing for people with disabilities usually increases the overall UX for everyone. I see it a bit like resistance training for fitness - you train in a 'more difficult than normal' scenario, and then when you return to normal it feels much easier.
> The billions these people have literally wouldn't exist if it weren't for them. iPhones and social networks and electric cars don't spontaneously materialize themselves.

Why not? And more to the point: they also wouldn't have materialised without the workers who get paid less in 30 years than the CEO makes in a day. Why aren't they fairly compensated? And even more extensively: they wouldn't have materialised without the broader society, a simple word to hide "everyone that is alive or has lived before you". Amazon makes that money because it has roads to drive its deliveries on, a police to prevent theft, courts to settle disputes, and of course the power of the state is what lets them keep their private property, ultimately society provides them with relatively safe and well-fed people with money in their pockets to spend on their stuff. Without that they would have nothing.

In other words, no person is "self-made", and everyone who has achieved financial success owes a debt to society. This is not even getting into Georgist ideas that people also owe a debt to society for using "commons" such as land or natural resources or polluting.
> I've got an LG TV, there aren't huge adverts. It's faster than switching on my PS5 to watch something.

LG TVs from the past few years involve some level of voice control, so an attacker could be able to remotely turn on your microphone and listen in on conversations.
The ft dropped the “Alt-Right” bomb in an article and then they had to change it.
I don't think they can respond to this adequately.

Imagine being the first one to bend to big money with that name hahaha
This is much more signifiant than Robinhood because IBKR is one of the most professional trading platforms available for retail investors.

Some more info:

https://twitter.com/IBKR/status/1354792600004386818
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I take a lot of design inspo from this twitter bot that randomly chooses web archive screengrabs. Indeed, the free video offer seems to be a huge distribution trend circa 1996!

https://twitter.com/wayback_exe/

One site I recently stumbled upon from that golden era is the UofM's Geometry Center. Static content still displays. But interactive Java applet support in modern browsers is an issue.

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/
Are buyers of these stocks really exposed to more downside risk than the buyers of the way OTM options they sell to retail investors freely?
Can you explain how it's possible that 99% of shares were held by owners that were willing to loan their share? Surely at least 2% of GME was owned by "regular people" whose shares just sit in their brokerage accounts?
Peat itself is often fairly damp.
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Dueling Twitter posts:

https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1354129838806872073?s...

I’m gonna go with Matt Levine over a Twitter rando, especially since the step 0 notes something that is explicitly illegal (front running)
I'm seeing that on BB, BBBY, NOK, NAKD, AMC, and GME.
> There is nothing illegal in the activities that I've seen: just people/institutions trading and holding stocks in an open market.

This is a bit of an oversimplification. Market manipulation for instance is forbidden my most regulators, and defined by the SEC as "transactions which create an artificial price or maintain an artificial price for a tradable security".

It would not seem irrational that people willingly gathering on internet to buy GME with the explicit objective of crashing hedge funds are considered market manipulators.
> the powers that rule USA don't realize that soon the only tool left to common people is violence?

Do you honestly believe this? Somehow we'll go from not being able to buy certain stocks to violence?

Banning collecting rain water on your own property didn't do it. Abject failure of politicians keeping drinking water clean didn't do it? Not being able to buy cheese from unpasteurized milk didn't do it. Can't grow a plant in your own backyard for personal consumption. But this is it, this is the impetuous. Not being able to buy GME stock.

Let's be real. This is small potatoes.
> ...the powers that rule USA don't realize that soon the only tool left to common people is violence?

I wonder how big the intersection is between people saying this now and people who said that the Black Lives Matter protests were violent (when they largely weren't).

> there is the deplatforming going on, people asserted their power financially, and now getting that removed too

It's not the same people. I keep seeing efforts to compare the deplatforming of violent and radical white supremacists that were using platforms to coordinate a coup to whatever other unpopular thing is happening today. I suspect that's an attempt to cultivate a little sympathy for people who have none for others.

Yes, large investment firms appear to be circling their wagons now and making moves through media partners and others to try to stop the bleeding. That's an entertaining enough event all on its own, it doesn't need specious comparisons to other recent events.
If I had a source I would be reporting it to the SEC, the FBI and any newspaper that would print it, though of course that would likely be none. This is all speculation, obviously.
YT also removes millions of likes/views, for example on K-pop videos which are fake-streamed by their "armies" of fans.

There are tutorials on the net on how to "ethically", "honestly" increase view counts on your favourite band, with stuff like no more than 1 watch every 20 minutes:

https://twitter.com/bstwings_views/status/129646245602223718...

So it's not easy to tell what's going on here, they could be inauthentic dislikes.
Is that the same Citadel who lent money to Melvin Capital? If so, that's a huge red flag.
Yeah but the thing is that the free market does not exists and companies can screw customers up and customers hating a company does not affect it that much.

The lists of companies that are absolutely shitty to their customers and are making billions is never ending. They don't need our approval.